A brand new startup in Davis is looking to lower the costs of battery storage devices dramatically by using second-life used lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles. The idea of giving electric car batteries a second life in stationary storage products is not...

Last Thursday night at the Clean tech meetup, Cleanstart filled The Workshop with people excited to hear about solar companies in the region. The Workshop is a new co-working space and incubator in the McKinley Park area, in a former manufacturing building. Owner,...

Empower Energy is a new venture just established in Davis, but with roots in Australia. It is an energy solution company aimed at pursuing the energy storage market, but also targeting an emerging need for micro grid management. It was founded in 2010 by Ezra...

Everyone in the Startup community is used to seeing exponential growth or adoption projections. It is the goal of everyone with new technology to have sales grow fast and reap the rewards. For decades people have talked about this growth in the Electric Vehicle...

In the last days of the session, the Legislature passed and the Governor has now signed a bill to increase markedly the commitment to renewable energy used to make electricity. SB 100 increases the requirement that all sellers of electricity in the state, whether...